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Rajkot: Indian captain Rohit Sharma Tuesday said five players, including in-form Shubman Gill, will not be available for selection for the third ODI against Australia, as the squad has been hit by a viral sickness and some players have opted to return home. India, who...

Lahore: Most of the Pakistan squad members have not played in India before but skipper Babar Azam Tuesday exuded confidence, saying his team has done its homework for the ODI World Cup beginning October 5. Pakistan team's visas were finally cleared on Monday night and...

Hangzhou: Top-ranked India will look to assert their continental supremacy with a second women's hockey gold in the Hangzhou Asian Games when they open their campaign against lowly Singapore here Wednesday. Placed seventh in the world, India are the top-ranked team in the competition ahead...

Hangzhou: India claimed the team dressage gold in equestrian sport at the Hangzhou Asian Games here Tuesday, breaking a 41-year-old jinx at the continental event. The team comprising Divyakriti Singh astride Adrenalin Firfod, Hriday Vipul Chhed (Chemxpro Emerald) and Anush Agarwalla (Etro) aggregated 209.205 percentage...

New Delhi: The three Wushu players from Arunachal Pradesh, who have not been able to travel to Hangzhou, China for the 19th Asian Games after being denied visa by Chinese authorities, returned to their home state Tuesday. The three female Wushu players -- Nyeman Wangsu,...

Hangzhou: Chinese President Xi Jinping is an important partner for global Olympic Movement, International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice president Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr said here. Samaranch Jr made the remarks during an interview with Xinhua in Hangzhou on the sidelines of the 19th Asian Games....

Hangzhou: India's top woman gymnast Pranati Nayak has made it to two finals of her favourite apparatus -- the vault -- along with women's all-round competitions of the women's artistic gymnastics discipline at the Hangzhou Asian Games here Monday. Participating in Subdivision 3, Pranati was...

New Delhi: The inaugural MotoGP Bharat 2023 showed glimpses of the future of motorcycle as the country’s sports enthusiasts experienced an electrifying show by Ola Electric, India’s EV company, at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) in Noida. While Marco Bezzecchi became the first MotoGP rider...

Hangzhou: Indian women's and men's squash teams begin their Hangzhou Asian Games campaign with a convincing win in their respective Pool stage match, here Tuesday. Women's team breezed past Pakistan while men's team defeated Singapore to begin their campaign on a winning note. In the...

Ningbo: Indian sailor Neha Thakur grabbed a silver in the girl's dinghy ILCA-4 event to open the country's medal count in the sport on day three of the Asian Games here Tuesday. A rising sailor from National Sailing School Bhopal, Neha finished with a total...